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Resisting spirits : drama reform and cultural transformation in the People's Republic of China / Maggie Greene.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greene, Maggie, author.
- Series:
- China understandings today.
- China understandings today
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- Chinese drama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ( 244 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- Resisting Spirits is a reconsideration of the significance and periodization of literary production in the high socialist era, roughly 1953 through 1966, specifically focused on Mao-era culture workers' experiments with ghosts and ghost plays.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Resurrecting Ghosts
- One. Demons and Marvels: Early Drama Reform in the PRC
- Two. Wandering West Lake: Ma Jianling, Ghost Opera, and Discourses of Mythology and Superstition
- Three. Old Trees Blooming: Li Huiniang, Ghost Literature, and the Early 1960s
- Four. Resisting Spirits: The Ghost Play Debates of 1963
- Five. Ox Ghost-Snake Spirits and Poisonous Weeds: The Origins of the Cultural Revolution
- Six. "Is It Not Fate?": Li Huiniang and the Post-Mao Milieu
- Coda: Haunted by Beautiful Ghosts
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- OCLC:
- 1112426775
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